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The World Jones Made (Mass Market Paperback)

by Philip K. Dick (Author)
3.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)

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Jones began his career telling fortunes at a mutant carnival. But soon this ungainly messiah will convulse a planet with his brand of fanaticism. For although Jones can see the future, his real power lies in his ability to make people dream again--in a world where dreaming has become illegal. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.


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"The fact that what Dick is entertaining us about is reality and madness, time and death, sin and salvation -- this has escaped most critics. Nobody notices that we have our own homegrown Borges."

-- Ursula K. LeGuin, New Republic

--This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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4.0 out of 5 stars Precognitive vision, Jun 2 2004
By Doug Mackey (Fairfield, IA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World Jones Made (Paperback)
One of Dick's early novels, The World Jones Made (1956) has well-realized characters and psychological complexity, but lacks a coherent plot focus. Without the reality breakdowns, multi-focal viewpoints, robots, and time paradoxes of Dick's later pyrotechnic creations, it ranks as a minor work in the PKD canon but is interesting for what it tries to do, showing a blackly ironic rise and fall of a man called Jones. Jones, whose character is based on Hitler, is a "precog" who can see the future, and builds up a mass movement to oppose the prevailing state ideology of Relativism. The Jews' role here is played by the Drifters, a harmless race of amoeba-like aliens, who represent the universe Jones wants to conquer. Jones is opposed by Cussick, the policeman, who is the voice of conventional, commonsense reality. But Jones is like Cussick's alter ego, and the two men's lives are entwined in complex and surprising ways. The psychology of the policeman and the unhappy marriage of the protagonist are elements to be found in a number of Dick's later books. Here there is a somewhat contrived positive ending, but what impresses is Dick's precognitive vision, which has been shown time and again in the years since the 50s to be right on the mark politically, sociologically, and philosophically.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Science-fiction, Existentialism and Beat Generation., April 20 2004
By Maximiliano F Yofre "Maxi" (Buenos Aires, Argentina) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The World Jones Made (Paperback)
The World that Jones Made is an early book in PKD huge production. In its frame there are resonances from Sartre and Kerouac. From the first, the deep and frightful knowledge of human acts futility: everything is written and immutable. From the second the angst that pursue many intellectuals in the late Fifties.
PKD constructs a disheveled post catastrophe world that imposes its fearful traits upon the reader. On this background the story of Jones, a foreseer that evolves from a fortuneteller to a religious messianic leader, is seen from the eyes of Cussick, a security agent that tries to stop him. Cussick represents the new establishment: the Relativists. They are trying to create a new utopia, but as many other utopist of the real world they are molding an universe without freedom and creativity. The answer that PKD gives to this is nihilism.
A dark yet captivating novel from a great writer that is trying his own mettle.
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4.0 out of 5 stars The rise and rise of Phillip K Dick, Jan 13 2004
By S Hanes "stephenhanes" (Penrith, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The World Jones Made (Paperback)
The other reviews of the book cover the plot and microcosms of The world Jones made, so I have little to add there.

I am surprised that many of Dick's "Fans" view this as a "lesser work" I guess Mozart had a few "lesser works" as well eh?
This was actually my first Phillip K Dick novel, I had heard a lot about him, particularly in relation to his connection with Gnosticism and was surprised to find "the world Jones made" in my local book store.

Not yet having had the opportunity to delve into the world of Dick as I would like to, I can only judge this book stand-alone without the rest of Dick's catalogue.
I started the book on Sunday morning and didn't put it down until I was finished, a hurried lunch in between. I would describe it as a real page-turner.

If some of my the world's leading sc-fi authors had Dick's idea it would have been made into a 3000page trilogy, instead Dick fleshes away the pap of his contemporaries and gives us an emminently readble and thought provoking novel. Highly recommended.

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5.0 out of 5 stars a brief history of the world Jones made
I must disagree with those who say this is an immature creation of PKD. Although a disjointed read in places (and his better stuff tends to be), conceptually it is one of his... Read more
Published on Dec 30 2002 by shringeri

4.0 out of 5 stars Glimpses of an untested PKD
True, The World Jones Made is an early entry into the pantheon of Dick's works and thus is devoid of the massive, week long acid trips, intense paranoia, and general tampering... Read more
Published on Aug 13 2002 by Winston J. Pennyworth III

3.0 out of 5 stars Unusual atmosphere for a PKD novel
As the previous reviewers have pointed out, this is early Dick and not as interesting (or as well-written) as his later work. Read more
Published on Mar 6 2002 by Steven Hancock

3.0 out of 5 stars greatest story ever told!
i wish i was no longer alive....
Published on Feb 27 2002 by Nobody Really

3.0 out of 5 stars The Untiring Din Of An Impassioned Man
This minor Philip K. Dick novel was written early in his career and is only interesting in that it plays with ideas that would later hatch full blown in his fiction. Read more
Published on Mar 31 2001 by Richard Behrens

3.0 out of 5 stars Author and Character Try for Greatness
This was one of PKD's first novels, and it shows - although the plot has some strong original elements in it, the language and manner of telling are pretty standard-issue for... Read more
Published on Dec 31 2000 by benshlomo

4.0 out of 5 stars 1956!
Okay, this isn't later PKD. There is no twist and fold of reality, no astral trip. But that doesn't make it any less worthwhile for reading. Read more
Published on Aug 15 2000 by Bradley Beth

4.0 out of 5 stars great
the title was one of the best considering its content. once jones realizes what his gift holds, then the world prepares for what he sees, never influencing the now, but creating... Read more
Published on April 2 2000 by jorge

3.0 out of 5 stars Mediocre PKD=Still better than 99% of sci fi
This is an early PKD and as such isn't up to the mad brilliance of his later writing... but it's got its moments. Like all PKD it makes you think, hard. Read more
Published on Feb 15 2000 by Ed Lee

4.0 out of 5 stars Deserves more credit.
People are generally harsh in consigning 'The World Jones Made' to stand beside truly awful novels like 'Dr. Futurity' and 'Vulcan's Hammer.' This novel is better than that. Read more
Published on Feb 9 2000 by Guy Salvidge

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